The decline and fall of Virgil in eighteenth-century Germany : the repressed muse /

In the early modern period, the culture of Rome, with Virgil as its greatest figure, was the model for emulation. The age of Louis XIV compared itself to the Augustan age, and Dryden hailed Virgil as 'my Divine Master.' But in 18th-century Europe, a general shift occurred in favor of Greec...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Atherton, Geoffrey, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2006.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Subjects:
Virgil > Influence.
Virgil > Appreciation > Germany.
Virgil.
1700-1799
German literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Aesthetics, German > 18th century.
Littérature allemande > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Esthétique allemande > 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Aesthetics, German.
Art appreciation.
German literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Germany.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Virgil: a Pentheus to the Germans in the eighteenth century?
  • Virgil both read and unread
  • Virgil the Rhapsode
  • Theorizing genre: from pastoral to idyll
  • The German idyll and the Virgilian muse.

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